An installation drawn from Maurice Harron’s iconic public sculpture Hands across the Divide, symbolising the division between Catholic and Protestant in the doubly named City of Derry~Londonderry in Northern Ireland.

Materialised Distance reflects on the hands of the monument’s two figures; frozen in an unfinished reconciliation, almost meeting, but never truly joining. There exists between them an eternal gap.

The space between the figures’ hands was captured with a high-precision 3D laser camera, translated into a 3D print, and then cast into a ceramic form. What once was an unresolvable, negative space is transformed into a palpable mass.